Four BLM Alaska Fire Service smokejumpers are working on a lightning-caused wildfire near the Canadian Border. The Pass Creek Fire (#245) was spotted by BLM AFS personnel from the Upper Yukon Zone on a detection flight Sunday following a few days of lightning strikes in Alaska. It is burning in a modified protection option area […]
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BLM AFS smokejumpers working on wildfire near Canadian border
June 19, 2017 
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Weather helps suppression, hinders demobilization of Norton Sound fires
June 19, 2017 Comments Off on Weather helps suppression, hinders demobilization of Norton Sound fires
The same weather that helped firefighters with suppression efforts over the past few days is now keeping them from demobilizing from two fires burning near the western coast of Alaska. A squad of six emergency firefighters from the Grayling village crew have been mopping up the Stebbins Dump Fire (#238) since BLM Alaska Fire Service […]
Continue readingState forestry managing 119-acre wildfire southwest of McGrath
June 19, 2017 Comments Off on State forestry managing 119-acre wildfire southwest of McGrath
Wildland firefighters are managing a lightning-caused wildfire that was reported late Saturday morning about 150 miles southwest of McGrath, according to the Alaska Division of Forestry. The Paimiut Fire, named after the nearby Paimiut Slough, is estimated at 119 acres. Six smokejumpers from the BLM Alaska Fire Service were dropped on the fire Saturday afternoon […]
Continue readingEast Fork Fire community meeting in Sterling tonight at 6 p.m.
June 19, 2017 Comments Off on East Fork Fire community meeting in Sterling tonight at 6 p.m.
A public meeting will be held tonight at the Sterling Community Center at 6pm. Join us tonight at the public meeting for an update on current fire activity as well as the plan for how it will be managed. Officials from the Alaska Division of Forestry, Kenai National Wildlife Refuge and the Kenai Peninsula Borough […]
Continue readingKenai Peninsula’s East Fork Fire grows to over 1,300 acres
June 18, 2017 Comments Off on Kenai Peninsula’s East Fork Fire grows to over 1,300 acres
The lightning-caused East Fork has grown to over 1300 acres and continues to burn in a limited protection area of the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. The fire remains approximately 4.5 miles north of the Sterling Highway and 3.5 miles east of the nearest residential area. Firefighting efforts are focused on the western and southern perimeters […]
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Forestry firefighters stop Big Lake fire
June 18, 2017 Comments Off on Forestry firefighters stop Big Lake fire
Alaska Division of Forestry crews worked late into the night and early Sunday morning to contain a fire near Big Lake. Six DOF firefighters stayed overnight on the fire – named after the nearby Call of the Wild Road – and picked up where they left off at 7 a.m. to get the 3.8 acre […]
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BLM AFS smokejumpers, aircraft kept busy by west coast fires
June 17, 2017 Comments Off on BLM AFS smokejumpers, aircraft kept busy by west coast fires
A fire burning outside the Stebbins dump and another burning on the tundra 29 miles to the south kept BLM Alaska Fire Service smokejumpers busy throughout most of Friday night and a good portion of Saturday morning. Instead of settling down as expected due to humidity levels on the Norton Sound coast, the Romanoff Fire […]
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East Fork Fire on Kenai Peninsula now estimated at 850 acres
June 17, 2017 Comments Off on East Fork Fire on Kenai Peninsula now estimated at 850 acres
A lightning-caused wildfire in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge more than doubled in size on Friday after increasing winds throughout the afternoon produced extreme fire behavior on the east and northeast sides of the fire. The latest size estimate on the East Fork Fire as of late Friday night was 850 acres. Most of the […]
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Smokejumpers, water scoopers working fire on Norton Sound coast
June 16, 2017 Comments Off on Smokejumpers, water scoopers working fire on Norton Sound coast
A load of eight BLM Alaska Fire Service smokejumpers and three aircraft including two water-scooping Fire Boss airplanes responded Friday night to a wildfire on the south side of Point Romanof about 29 miles south of Stebbins. While looking into a report of a possible fire just four miles west of last week’s Kogok 3 […]
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Wildfire on Kenai Peninsula grows but poses no immediate threat
June 16, 2017 Comments Off on Wildfire on Kenai Peninsula grows but poses no immediate threat
A lightning-caused wildfire burning in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge grew in size on Friday but firefighters were able to keep it from spreading south and west toward the Sterling Highway. As of 5:30 p.m., the East Fork Fire was estimated between 300-400 acres, according to the Alaska Division of Forestry. Most of the growth […]
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